Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The only concern which I have today is that we have a policy, a foreign policy, which enables us to avoid a… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme -… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
We know one another's faults, virtues, catastrophes, mortifications, triumphs, rivalries, desires, and how long we can each hang by our hands to… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe. That things are 'status quo' is the catastrophe — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
What degree of proof about the human catastrophe from global climate change do we need, before we are motivated to act to… — Eric Chivian Copy Share Image
someone had tried to warn me of the kind of catastrophe that is likely to occur when you involve yourself too closely… — Mary Deasy Copy Share Image
Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side,… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
We live in an era when established values are no longer valid, when prodigious discoveries are being made every year, when catastrophes… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
With the situation as gray as it could be, no one was more conspicuous in his calm presence of mind than Washington.… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
As long as no more than a small minority are capable of reading and writing, universal alphabetization seems like a messianic project.… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
Humanity cannot afford to muddle through the rest of the twentieth century; the risks are too great, and the stakes are too… — John Holdren Copy Share Image
What I know for sure is that behind every catastrophe, there are great lessons to be learned. Among the many that we… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
Catastrophe was only narrowly averted. It was all due to the faith of one man! Yes, you who called us godless, we… — Robert Ley Copy Share Image
True nonattachment is understanding that you are fundamentally attached to everything and, through that understanding, dropping your attachment to the view that… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
I am extremely interested in how people negotiate catastrophe, not because I'm morbidly interested in it but because I'm interested in the… — Janette Turner Hospital Copy Share Image
I perfectly understand the particular attention which you pay to the question of nuclear energy, and fully realize the possible dangers and… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
To fail to properly contextualize content has historically been the basis for the slaughter of millions of people in every century throughout… — David Hawkins Copy Share Image
If we are to avoid that catastrophe [a nuclear World War III], a system of world order — preferably a system of… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
What would've happened, do you think, had the government not intervened in October 2008? The catastrophe to the economy would've been absolutely… — Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky Copy Share Image
The Bush administration has created an unimaginable catastrophe in Iraq. This should've been one of the easiest military occupations in history and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Of the four billion life forms which have existed on this planet, three billion, nine hundred and sixty million are now extinct.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It seemed to me the basic definition of mental illness, this persistent, painful inability to simply be with someone else. It might… — Tracy Thompson Copy Share Image
Just remember, without discipline, a clear strategy, and a concise plan, the speculator will fall into all the emotional pitfalls of the… — Jesse Lauriston Livermore Copy Share Image
“How someone wants to explain catastrophe isn't important--that's what I know now. When shit happens, it doesn't really matter what asshole is… — Catherine Lacey Copy Share Image
If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe. — Valerie Jarrett Copy Share Image
Everything trends towards catastrophe & collapse. I am interested, geared up & happy. Is it not horrible to be built like that? — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The battle of Kursk... the forcing of the Dnieper... and the liberation of Kiev, left Hitlerite Germany facing catastrophe. — Vasily Chuikov Copy Share Image
“It was the wrong place at the wrong time kind of shit that had quickly turned into a catastrophe of epic proportions” — Madeline Sheehan Copy Share Image
Irony is the hardest addiction of all. Forget heroin. Just try giving up irony, the deep-down need to mean two things at… — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
I'm familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control… — Dave Matthews Copy Share Image
The Severing is a catastrophe: an event that does not take place 'at' a certain 'point' in linear time, but a wave… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Catastrophe and desire are linked in our lives as the moon is linked to that reflected light from the sun which enables… — Herbert Gold Copy Share Image
Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Washington's adventuristic policy, whipping up international tension to the utmost, is pushing mankind towards nuclear catastrophe. — Konstantin Chernenko Copy Share Image
In China, it was always said that a double-digit rate of growth would be dangerous. Now, the country has a growth rate… — Wolfgang Schauble Copy Share Image
So many awful things have happened in Karachi, it's true. It has its own crazy rhythm. Even as crazy as other news… — Steve Inskeep Copy Share Image
These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe. — Valerie Trierweiler Copy Share Image
Political ideas that have dominated the public mind for decades cannot be refuted through rational arguments. They must run their course in… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
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